SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:11
¶ Las riquezas del rico son la ciudad de su fortaleza, y como un muro alto en su imaginación.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 18:11
Verse 11. The rich man's wealth ] See chap. x. 15.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. The rich man’s wealth [is] his strong city , etc.] In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble: as one f524 observes, “the abundance of a rich man’s wealth he conceives to be as it were the abundance of people in a “city”; the telling of his money he imagines to be the walking of people up and down the streets; his bags standing thick together to be so many houses standing close one to the other; his iron barred chests to be so mary bulwarks; his bonds and bills to be his cannons and demi-cannons, his great ordinance; and in the midst of these he thinketh himself environed with a “great wall”, which no trouble is able to leap over, which no misery is able to break through.” As it follows; and as a high wall in his own conceit : which not only separates and distinguishes him from others; but, as he imagines, will secure him from all dangers, and will be abiding, lasting, and durable: but all this is only “in his own conceit”, or “imagery” f525 ; in the chambers of his imagery, as Jarchi, referring to ( Ezekiel 8:12); where the same word is used; for this wall shall not stand; these riches cannot secure themselves, they take wing and fly away; and much less the owner of them, not from public calamities, nor from personal diseases of body, nor from death, nor from wrath to come.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10, 11 - The Divine power, made known in and through our Lord Jesus Christ forms a strong tower for the believer, who relies on the Lord. Ho deceitful the defence of the rich man, who has his portion and treasur in this world! It is a strong city and a high wall only in his ow conceit; for it will fail when most in need. They will be exposed to the just wrath of that Judge whom they despised as a Saviour.
Original Hebrew
הון 1952 עשׁיר 6223 קרית 7151 עזו 5797 וכחומה 2346 נשׂגבה 7682 במשׂכיתו׃ 4906
